K-6 What We Learned from Our SAILS: Using Law Students as Human Subjects and Measuring Law Student Information Literacy

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Tuesday, July 28 - 3:30pm - 4:00pm
Location: 
WCC-Room 152 AB
Target Audience: 
Academic law librarians and academic law library administrators; instructional law librarians; law librarians who are interested in human-subjects research
Learning Outcomes: 
1) Participants will better understand the critical role that Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) play in approving original research on law library patrons, and will be able to use this understanding toward crafting proposals that withstand IRB scrutiny.
2) Participants will learn the fundamentals of assessment theory, including an overview of both Classical Test Theory and Item-Response Theory, in order to understand how these theories drive Information Literacy (IL) assessment.

Information Literacy (IL) is not merely the current paradigm for analyzing bibliographic instruction, it also has the potential to provide much-needed data for persuading law school administrators to focus resources onto research instruction. Expanding upon their 15-minute ALL-SIS-sponsored educational program at the 101st Annual Meeting of AALL, Dennis Kim-Prieto and Molly Brownfield will discuss their experiences with IRB review, present concepts fundamental to standardized assessment, and examine detailed findings from their administration of ACRL’s Project SAILS, a standardized measure of IL, to Rutgers Law Students. Brownfield and Kim-Prieto will also present the results from their post-SAILS survey measuring law students' attitudes toward and perception of legal research in general, and their skills in particular. This program will close with a summary of the work already accomplished toward commissioning an AALL Committee on Law Student Information Literacy.

Speaker(s): 
Dennis C. Kim-Prieto, Coordinator, Co-moderator and Speaker, Rutgers University Law School Library
Molly (Mary) Brownfield, Co-moderator and Speaker, J. Michael Goodson Law Library, Duke University School of Law